India’s largest petrochemical plant, built by ONGC Petro Additions Ltd (OPaL) at a cost of Rs 30,000 crore, at Dahej Special Economic Zone (SEZ) was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. OPaL, a joint venture company promoted by ONGC, GAIL, and GSPC, is the single largest petrochemical plant in the country that has a capacity to produce 14 lakh tonnes of polymers and 5 lakh tonnes of chemicals such as benzene annually.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated some of the most crucial infrastructure projects in Gujarat including the 1.4 kilometre long four-lane cable-bridge over the river Narmada at Bharuch on National Highway-8, considered to be one of the busiest national highways.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced investment of Rs 12,000 crore in upgrading eight highways in Gujarat to National Highways as part of efforts to boost infrastructure development and job generation in the state.

In what could impact India’s hydro power generation, the water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on March 02, 2017 was 64.55 BCM, which is 41% of total storage capacity of these reservoirs.

Brookfield Asset Management, the world’s second biggest alternative assets manager, is in talks with lenders of debt-laden Jaiprakash Power Ventures to acquire the firm’s three power plants, two people with direct knowledge of the development said.

The discussions are in initial stages and there is no certainty that a transaction will take place. A deal, if it happens, could close at an equity value of Rs 4,500-5,000 crore, one of the two people said

Will India, home to several polluted cities and towns, see the birth of its first carbon neutral town?

To know that, it is important to understand what ‘carbon neutrality’ means. It is basically a state where the net quantity of carbon dioxide or for that matter, of other carbon compounds released into the atmosphere is turned to zero

The international crude oil price of Indian Basket as computed/published today by Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas was US$ 54.24 per barrel (bbl) on06.03.2017. This was higher than the price of US$ 54.02 per bbl on previous publishing day of 03.03.2017

Women of households below poverty line will need to enrol for Aadhaar by May 31 to be able to avail themselves of a free LPG connection under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. The petroleum ministry has made this mandatory after making the 12-digit identification number compulsory for subsidised cooking gas cylinders under its Pahal scheme a few months ago.

Hurun Report today released the Hurun Global Rich List India, a list of the richest people in India featured in the Hurun Global rich list with a cut-off of US$1bn. This is the 6th year of the list, which has become a benchmark for the private sector. For all conversion purposes the US Dollar to Indian Rupees is Rs 68.1/ US Dollar.

Railways has introduced 33 per cent of sub-quota for women in the allotment of food stalls at rail premises as a special provision in the new catering policy. The new catering policy was launched recently by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu as promised in the Rail Budget 2016-17

The Steel Ministry is likely to get Cabinet's approval on its proposed National Steel Policy, that will make it mandatory for all infrastructure and construction projects of the government to use locally manufactured steel.

India will outpace the United States to emerge as the second largest economy in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms by 2040, global management consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers has forecast in a report back from 2017-18 on rising consumer demand.